Ethereum

Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum.

Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become.

🧵👇

Honey, wake up the kids! A new Helios has dropped.

Good Bread by Greg

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

Apple

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while! The OG Apple Watch, also happy birthday my man.

coffee

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

I'll dare to say it... in all of Manhattan! (unless you still have the two-month old beans 🤣)

Music

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

http://opacity.network

Amateur math nerd. Investing and Building Research @EV3Ventures. Dislike lemon Starburst.

@eulerlagrange.eth wanted to let you know @ncitron.eth and I are recreating this shot for shot (he doesn’t know yet)

https://youtu.be/pgz6PnHkmpY?si=qXI7IvZpO6Gre-nV

Absolute banger. Enough said.

I’m excited to announce @a16zcrypto is leading the $9M Series A round in /daylightenergy! 🔆 Daylight is building a decentralized protocol to fund & coordinate distributed energy resources.

Daylight will initially sell distributed energy resource (DER) data to energy companies. It plans to enable anyone to build a virtual power plant, with access to info about DERs & the ability to control their deployment.

Imagine a home with solar panels, an electric vehicle battery, & a smart thermostat. Daylight lets the homeowner capture & sell data from those devices to energy companies to better manage the grid.

Co-founder & CEO @jasonbadeaux is a leading expert on decentralized network design for the physical world. Along with co-founders @powertrader and Udit Patel, they've built a crack team of energy grid operators, smart contract engineers, and domain experts.

We’re thrilled to help Daylight build a better & more decentralized energy grid! https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-daylight/

Huge news! Congrats to @jasonbadeaux and the entire Daylight team. A fantastic example of why we're excited about DePIN in distributed energy, and it's just the start. Excited to watch Daylight grow!

Why are people proposing switching the state to a starked binary merkle tree instead of a ternary merkle tree?

The total amount of hashed data should be proportional to log_a(n)*a where a is the arity of the tree. This function has a minimum at e, which is closer to 3 than 2.

This correlates to a ~5% savings in amount of hashed data by using ternary over binary.

old: double entry bookkeeping
new: client diversity

I'm excited to share Good Bread by Greg, a mini onchain bakery for onchain summer!

How it works:
- Order bread on Base (starts today)
- Pick up your brand and hang out in NYC (starts this weekend)

Let's get this bread 🍞 https://goodbread.nyc?ref=farcaster

I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with @greg and getting to try his banana bread. I wasn’t even hungry and ate four pieces. 

Do yourself a favor if you’re in nyc… go get some 🔥 bread and bring an extra pair of socks because that bread will knock yours off.

Checking the chains @witness - icebreaker.xyz/osprey.fc

Hi Joe. Been less than a day, miss you already :))

EthCC

Just listened to @colludingnode’s funny and insightful talk at modsum, including some nifty folding schemes.

Highly recommend checking out “Lightnodes Everywhere: Why and How?” when it drops on YouTube.

Subjectivocrat, Lunarpunk, Eschatologist | engineer @ Celestia

Philosophy

Aaaand here’s the pre-print; we submitted yesterday. Does creating an AI clone of yourself grant you a kind of life extension?

“Digital doppelgängers and lifespan extension: What matters?”

Aaaand here’s the pre-print; we submitted yesterday. Does creating an AI clone of yourself grant you a kind of life extension?

“Digital doppelgängers and lifespan extension: What matters?”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382180190_Digital_doppelgangers_and_lifespan_extension_What_matters

Farcaster

All these Farcaster tipping currencies are basically sovereign rollups using Farcaster as a DA layer with trusted bridges to an L2.

An odd consequence of this is that since Farcaster does not produce a canonical ordering, tipping is subject to double spends until the token is "bridged" to the L2.

Design Everydays

there's gotta be a way to abstract on/offramping so you can just connect smart wallets and spend directly from your bank and when that becomes real you'll be able to control permissions from your bank app instead of your wallet

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x5abf0c04ab7196e2bdd19313b479baebd9f7791b/161

Better yet: how do we get to a point where we don’t even need this?

EigenDA DevRel - onchain thinker and sharer of information
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Prev @ intuition.systems

Can we please stop naming things with made up EIP numbers?

It's an easy way to immediately turn off like half the community.

Vinny

@vinny